Cynthia Voigt Quotes
Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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When I was 8 years old, I sold garden seeds.
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My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the screenplay.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
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I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.
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Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.
